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Hi Susan, from the “Did it Work” Department

I have no new System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker  events

The last event listed in my event viewer is April 10th 2025 which said that ‘The service terminated with the following error: %%3489660935

Is it possible that it’s finally fixed?

I think the System Guard Runtime may have taken a one whole day vacation, but here we go again

After telling me that KB5057589 failed (retry?) twice it successfully installed the .NET update and this month’s security update (KB5055518)
I thought I had resolved the RE issue months ago so I went into PowerShell and ran
reagentc /info only to be told “enabled”
So now I’m left wondering if I ever need the thing …..will it work?

Your [ get-command * ] yields the absurd lol
My biggest pet peave about 11 that has kept me from upgrading (?)  to it, not withstanding the fact that neither of my 2 PCs nor my laptop (all i7s) qualify, is the absurdity of trying to get anything done. A friend asked me to help him fix an issue with a peice of hardware, I couldn’t find anything ! Everything I could think of required at least an extra click if not 2

PgrmBroker.exe. Please do not attempt to manually uninstall or remove this service or its components. ……..
OK,  So if, in Microsoft’s own words, it hasn’t been used in  “a long, long time” why didn’t they remove the service from the operating system during the update?
Why wasn’t it removed a Long Long time ago?  What other possible function could it serve if it serves no function but is too important to  remove?
It ‘s dumb stuff like this that breeds mistrust in big tech companies.
Now I also have a new version of Outlook I didn’t ask for that no doubt wants to run my Gmail through the MS data vacuum. Sorry, Outlook 2007 does everything I need.
Now, if I could just convince MS to re-label Win Ten to Windows 12 I would have 3 very happy computers.
Oh, I’m taking advance bets on whether they’ll use 13,  skip a number or switch to nouns.
🙂

Some rather famous folk down through history have suggested that it’s good to know  your enemy…..
Then there is one of the first bits of advice I remember my Mother giving me (other then which side of the plate the silverware went on)….
If you don’t have anything  nice to say, don’t…..
I don’t think I need to finish that one, have a great evening, try to anyway 🙂

Thanks for that Will, Great read!
I think my first exposure to computers was a Commodore 64 that  I stole off our store’s display after they hadn’t sold any for a couple months. I was the service manager for a 7 store stereo chain from 1983 to 1988. I had so many repairs coming in, and only me and my apprentice to do the work so I wrote a program to keep track of any units that had to be sent back to their manufacturers. If a store manager called about a repair I punched the tag # into the Commodore then went to that store’s shelves to see if it was there, if I heard the Commodore ‘Beep’ I knew I could stop looking on the shelves. Average look up time was 30 seconds. It still saved me a lot of time. In 1998 I became the ‘Network Administrator’ at a local manufacturer with an NT 3.1 Server and 13 workstations, and on and on…..
Thanks again for the flashback 🙂

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Will Fastie

I’ve been reading Microsoft forum posts stating that ALL versions of Outlook prior to Outlook 2019 will stop working on September 24th, 2024.
Not surprisingly they are all from Microsoft it’s self or their certified minions.

Nowhere do they state that they are only talking about Outlook.com accounts and (if there are) any other MS hosted email services. This seems to be just another blatant scare tactic by the sales department. If what they were saying were really true I’d think that Google would be shouting it from the rafters to all their Gmail users using Outlook 2007 on up.
In the meantime they’re doing their best to scare the bejesus out of people on the forums

Susan,
My Mom came up with a great low tech solution 40 years ago…..
No battery, no PC…All you need is a window to see if the mailman has come.
A golfball, a couple nuts, washers and the U shaped bolt (I think that one used to hold the antenna mast to the side of the house) and a piece of string.
Kevin

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wavy, Tom in Az, SueW, KWGuy, PL1

All they would really have to do is remove the TPM requirement then everybody wouldn’t have to buy new hardware. I’m retired, this PC is blazin’ fast for what I do and every time some new security thing is ‘going to keep us safe for good’ it gets cracked, hacked and spit out by the roadside within 2 years. I don’t expect TPM 2 to be any different, besides all the consumer PC damage is done by people falling for ‘bait’, clicking on links, ain’t no TPM going to save us from ourselves! 🙂

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SkipH

It had to have been a store return, their electronics return rate is around 15-20%, you would have hoped they would wipe them but apparently not.

Thanks for that, one can only hope that they are as lazy about splitting the EU out of their update as they are about everything else. With more luck than I expect from them maybe they’ll just do it for everyone.
Of course they’ve probably already re-purposed an entire department to think of something that will sidestep the new rule, suck in as much data, take years to get caught, pay the Billion dollar fine and do it all over again.
They’ve been at this game so long the originators are collecting pensions 😉

Susan, Are you saying that my Microsoft account which has 3 digital licenses for my 3 Windows 10 machines, through a gmail address is now somehow connected to a 365 account? I’m confused 😉

Thanks in advance

Kevin G

What kills me is not  just having Edge attempting to talk me out of installing Chrome 3 times in 30 seconds but then for weeks it pesters you to switch y our default back to Edge.
Ok, That’s marketing 101 (well, maybe -101)
But they do not give us a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘ No’, our choices are ‘Yes’ and ‘Maybe Later’
or ‘Yes and ‘Not right now’
Screw that, the opposite of yes isn’t maybe later, it’s NO. Do they think I’ll wake up to some epiphany  swooning over a product that just insulted my intelligence?

I hope the EU demanded that behavior stop in their list of demanded changes
Oh, and the last update completely deleted IE11 making Outlook 2007 no longer able to open hyperlinks in emails. It’s not just turned off, the folders are gone in program files and program files(86)!

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Cybertooth

Hi Susan,
Edit: I just realized I’m off subject, if you want to move this please do.
While thinking about all the good and bad, and very bad things AI may be able to do my mind took an exit ramp onto a different privacy issue, thanks kg

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I was downloading an audio app (Maxx Audio) from the Microsoft Store and happened to click on the privacy policy, I couldn’t believe my eyes! Take a look, is this even legal?

The App can:
The app can Access all your files, peripheral devices, apps, programs, and registry: The app has the ability to read or write to all your files

The app can make changes to your computer and settings
The app can access any of your account info.
The app can run as an administrator without telling you

Access your calendars. Access history of phone calls including Skype, Access your instant messages and account info.
Access your contacts, people, or address book apps. Access your email and account info for your email accounts.
Activate and use any facial recognition hardware. Activate and use any voice recognition hardware.

Install additional software. Activate and use the microphone on your device. Activate and use the camera on your device.
Activate and use WiFi connections between your device, the internet, and other computers

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How can this even be legal?

Thanks,

Kevin G